Psychedelics: Microdosing, Mind-Enhancing Methods, and More – The Tim Ferriss Show

University of Virginia professor of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences Dr. Ed Kelly, and University of California, Berkeley professor of molecular and cell biology Dr. David Presti, explain another significant finding: “The intensity of the psychedelic experience was significantly correlated with the magnitude of these decreases.”

the enormous healing power of psychedelics may lie in their extraordinary ability to affect what we actually believe to be true about reality and ourselves.

Heroic dose: Ethnobotanist Terence McKenna coined the term “heroic dose,” which is often equated to 5 or more grams of mushrooms or more than 400 mcg of LSD. James doesn’t recommend this brute-force dosing, which McKenna described as “sufficient to flatten the most resistant ego.” Jim feels that you don’t remember anything, nor do you bring anythin

Psychedelics produce an altered state of consciousness in which the user experiences a hyper-real reality that can be difficult to describe with words. Under the materialist view of consciousness, we might expect that these enriched experiences are caused by an increase in brain activity. A richer experience would be caused by more brain activity,